Re: [Vala] Metatada files doubts

["Alejandro T. Colombini" <atcolombini gmail com>]

2012/10/24 Andrea Del Signore <sejerpz gmail com>

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Alejandro T. Colombini
> <atcolombini gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I'm binding a C library I wrote and right now I was only using the
> > metadata files to avoid vapigen from skipping some methods with varargs
> and
> > rename things.
> ...
> >     Also, I use a slightly different notation for everything:
>
> >     My doubts are: are there two different metadata languages?
>
> Yes there are two way to make a binding file (vapi file).
>
> The first one use a .gi file generated with vala-gen-introspect [1]
> command and the second one just use the .gir file.
>
> The .gi method is older its metadata format is documented here [2],
> instead the .gir one is what is we prefer today and its metadata
> format is documented here [3] as you already know.
>
> HTH,
> Andrea
>
> [1] https://live.gnome.org/Vala/Bindings/GI
> [2] https://live.gnome.org/Vala/Manual/GIDL%20metadata%20format
> [3] https://live.gnome.org/Vala/Manual/GIR%20metadata%20format

Thanks, Andrea.


    Any idea about what to do (or what the valac Gtk binding does) to use a
C boxed type binded to a vala struct like:

var iter = Gtk.TreeIter ();

from Vala? I've not seen any custom vala code to adapt it.

    Also, I've used the 'struct' argument to use my boxed as a vala struct,
but when i try to set its methods as 'hidden' vapigen warns about the
argument being ignored.

Regards,
    Alex